קָשֶׁה
qâsheh · kaw-sheh'
severe (in various applications)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7185 (קָשָׁה);
severe (in various applications)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: churlish, cruel, grievous, hard((-hearted), thing), heavy, [phrase] impudent, obstinate, prevailed, rough(-ly), sore, sorrowful, stiff(necked), stubborn, [phrase] in trouble.
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › to consume, to destroy › to reveal, behold
What comes behind, the returning cycle that works to consume, to destroy that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קָשֶׁה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 25 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- roughly3 · 11%
- and, behold, it is a stiffnecked2 · 7%
- with hard1 · 4%
- and for cruel1 · 4%
- the hard1 · 4%
- of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked1 · 4%
- ye are a stiffnecked1 · 4%
- us; for it is a stiffnecked1 · 4%
- for thou art a stiffnecked1 · 4%
- upon us hard1 · 4%
- and thy stiff1 · 4%
- nor from their stubborn1 · 4%
- and prevailed1 · 4%
- of a sorrowful1 · 4%
- thee roughly1 · 4%
- was churlish1 · 4%
- sore1 · 4%
- be too hard1 · 4%
- now therefore make thou the grievous1 · 4%
- to thee with heavy1 · 4%
- thou somewhat the grievous1 · 4%
- them roughly1 · 4%
- for him that was in trouble1 · 4%
- hard things1 · 4%
- is cruel1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.